Originally posted by FMF
No. Sorry. I know only too well how you bristle with parochialism. But if we want to talk about the Japanese with some modicum of insight, I think living there for a few years trumps a visit to Dallas' North Park Mall. Or maybe I'm wrong. Make your point. Make a real point. Make any point. How can you run out of things to say so quickly on a thread you yourself started?
you make some very good points. i lived in okinawa for 4 1/2 years. My experience is not as relevant, as it was a number of years ago, but living there gives me a better perspective on them than most.